Upcoming Events

From March 18-22, Penn Faculty will convene a Teach-In on “the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge.” Organized by Penn's Faculty Senate, the effort spans all of Penn’s twelve schools culminating in 24 events across campus that consider the role of the

Does it make sense anymore to speak of the environment, singular —or of a singular humanity, given the world’s diversity and inequity? As we better appreciate the radical interdependence of humans with places, substances, and other beings, even our settled ideas about the nature of political and historical agency may no longer be of help to us. This symposium brings together humanists and social scientists to rethink environmentalisms in response to individuals, communities, and species whose needs conflict as much as converge in unequal landscapes of vulnerability and care.

Does it make sense anymore to speak of the environment, singular —or of a singular humanity, given the world’s diversity and inequity? As we better appreciate the radical interdependence of humans with places, substances, and other beings, even our settled ideas about the nature of political and historical agency may no longer be of help to us. This symposium brings together humanists and social scientists to rethink environmentalisms in response to individuals, communities, and species whose needs conflict as much as converge in unequal landscapes of vulnerability and care.

On behalf of the Poetry and Poetics working group, we are excited to invite you to Poetics Lab: A Writing Workshop, an event we’ve been putting together, and for which we’re bringing the poet and scholar Tonya Foster.

Tonya is most recently the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna 2015). With Kristin Prevallet, she coedited the collection, Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (Teachers & Writers Collaborative 2002). She is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts.

Slought and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures are pleased to present "The Modernist Wound," a conversation about injury as an aesthetic principle in literary and filmic modernism. The event will feature a discussion between:

The GEA is organizing a faculty panel on academic publishing, which will be held in the grad lounge from 12-2 PM on Wednesday, March 28th, 2018.

Advanced graduate students Sierra Lomuto and Travis Lau and faculty members Emily Steinlight and David Eng will offer reflections and answer questions about preparing articles for publication, selecting journals, revising your work, negotiating the generic differences between seminar paper, academic article and dissertation chapter, and whatever else you would like to ask.

On April 3rd, the Gender/Sexuality Reading Group will host Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Assistant Professor of English at Bryn Mawr, in Fisher Bennett Hall 330 (Graduate Lounge) from 5-6:30 pm. Please email alvinkim@sas.upenn.edu for pre-circulated readings or if you have any questions.

Jürgen Habermas famously claimed that modernity, despite its failings and contradictions, was an "unfinished project" in which we should still be optimistically engaged. The 2018 annual conference of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA) will consider ways in which we might understand the Victorian period and its aesthetic products as unfinished. What Victorian projects are Victorianists still advancing, or working against? How did the Victorians see themselves, their society, and their creative works as unfinished?

Jürgen Habermas famously claimed that modernity, despite its failings and contradictions, was an "unfinished project" in which we should still be optimistically engaged. The 2018 annual conference of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA) will consider ways in which we might understand the Victorian period and its aesthetic products as unfinished. What Victorian projects are Victorianists still advancing, or working against? How did the Victorians see themselves, their society, and their creative works as unfinished?

Jürgen Habermas famously claimed that modernity, despite its failings and contradictions, was an "unfinished project" in which we should still be optimistically engaged. The 2018 annual conference of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA) will consider ways in which we might understand the Victorian period and its aesthetic products as unfinished. What Victorian projects are Victorianists still advancing, or working against? How did the Victorians see themselves, their society, and their creative works as unfinished?